Monday, 26 July 2010

Visual Feast

I have reposted all ofCiaran's designs so far so that they can finally be accessed in large version! It's also nice to have them all together, by scrolling down the posts you can see the progress on one page!

Clicking on each of the images now will make it fill a browser page so that all the lovely detail he has been drawing can be seen as it is supposed to be. So browse away, enjoy and don't be afraid to comment as you see fit!

welcome...

This blog has become the definitive guide to all of the work which I have been doing since 2009, from animations to advent calendars and doodles for friends this blog contains it all. The good, the bad and the ugly. Thank you for browsing and taking the time to enjoy this weird and visual diary of a workaholic....

the projects

1. Leap Year [Personal Project]

A male waits at an insignificant railway platform in the back of beyond for a utopian city which only appears for one day in every four years.

2. Waverley[Personal/ Master's Project]

What could of happened if Futurist Sant' Elia had designed the Waverley railway station in Edinburgh.

3. A Sweet Disposistion [dir. - Eleanor Affleck]

A young boy faces his first halloween in a new town. prone to bullying and eager to please he has a rough time before he befriends a mysterious Halloween being with a sweet tooth in graveyard.

4. Mousetache [dir. - Ashley Burns]

The adventures of a swashbuckling mouse in a Calafornian town.

5. Mawkin's Backfire [dir. - Brian Lindsay]

A Tex Avery style cartoon following the misadventures of an unfortunate scarecrow and the two adorable but pesky birds which bother him.

leap year : why?

A personal ongoing project to be worked on throughout this year. It is essentially a 2D piece with experimentation using 3D characters within that environent.

Some things in this world are significantly symbolic. Others are thought-provoking or resonate with something deeply personal. There are things destined to change the world and those which will revolutionize the way we think.

This animation is none of these.

A simple short story about fables, magic, love and seasons, it aims to explore and exploit the more romantic or idyllic notions of contemporary civilisation.

Fueled by hot caffeine this is a work intensive labor of love intended to experiment with environments and compositing with the intention to be playful, sweet and very colourful .

Its not big, it's not clever but it has a lot of heart.

waverley : why?

With a previous background in architecture this project aims to allow me learn and test skills which I learned while studying the built environment and apply it in a new commercial way.

Returning to the Futurists was an easy decision to make having completed an interesting undergraduate dissertation on the influence of the movement on cinema. The site of Waverley station in Edinburgh fitted the requirements of having an appropriate function for this project as well as it existing on a multi-leveled site I can visit and film easily while providing an interesting juxtaposition with Edinburgh's old and new town.

The aim of this project is to turn the skills which I have into a commercially viable project, allowing me to improve my 3D and mix live action footage with an animated model while exploring the dynamic theories of the Futurist movement.